Why didn't they smoke them?? And why did they say the honey smelled bad?? Maybe it was the house that smelled bad. It was very crude and irresponsible. Why did they not call a beekeeper??? I felt so sad for the bees.

Why didn't they smoke them?? And why did they say the honey smelled bad?? Maybe it was the house that smelled bad. It was very crude and irresponsible. Why did they not call a beekeeper??? I felt so sad for the bees.

Annette

I didn't watch the video, but in my experience, honey that is from old combs with pollen will sometimes smell funky. Dead animals would smell worse, though.

didn't those bees seem pretty aggressive right from the start? just pulling off a board shouldn't have been enough to have them pinging and stinging? not sure i'd have tried to take them home!

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kathy, for some reason I could't get the video to load but to respond to your question, just pulling boards off is indeed enough to get a hive riled up. A lot of time you will have comb that is attached to the boards, and when you pull them off, you are breaking comb, which the bees do not like. Plus in my experience, older hives, say 3 yrs or older can be a bit testy. Seems the longer they've been there the more defensive they can be.